๐ฐ๏ธ Crime When You Were Born
Enter your birth year and travel back in time to see what crime looked like the year you arrived. Was America safer or more dangerous? The answer might surprise you.
Key Insights
- โViolent crime peaked in 1991 at 758.2 per 100K โ the height of the crack epidemic
- โToday's rate of 359.1 per 100K is 53% lower than the peak
- โMurder rates have fallen from 9.8 (1991) to 5.5 (2024) per 100K
- โMost people born after 1960 were born into a more dangerous America than today